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…which is to say, not at all: A teenage girl who squirted bleach in the faces of two police officers has been allowed to walk free from court. The 17-year-old could have faced a life prison sentence if she was…

…every bit as useless as the old Cressida Dick: Michelle Skeer was criticised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) over the ‘unstructured and disorganised’ probe into the 13-month-old’s death in December 2012. This was the Poppi Worthington case. You…

Elfyn Llwyd, the Plaid Cymru MP, whose 10-minute rule bill in February 2014 first proposed the new offence, said he was frustrated that there had been such a poor take-up of training by police forces across the country, which had…

…but where do you place your bets? Mr Scarr, who used to work saving animals in Morocco and lives with 150 dogs, has also hit out at Essex Police after they failed to make any arrests. The pair claim they…

“You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm…” For the men, women and children forced to call Moria their home, the refugee camp is a daily battle for survival in conditions so desperate that even the Greek migration…

“The boys on bikes weave in and out of old people and children and at night they congregate to goad the security guards. If the security guards have little or no power then why can’t the police come to the…

When Carl Sinclair saw a drug addict try to steal his car as his wife and three children slept in his Doncaster home, he grabbed a lump hammer, rushed outside in his boxers and punched the burglar to the floor.…

“Here, darling, let me show you a picture..” Three police cars with flashing lights arrived at the site on Tuesday afternoon – but left after just 15 minutes when one of the travellers became aggressive. “Whose streets? Errr, well,…

Really? Everyone else does: Writing on Facebook, Mr Jonas, who is originally from Jamaica, said: ‘RIP son, daddy was on his way but didn’t get there in time. We will never get to do what we had planned. You died…

Hurrah..? A majority of magistrates are women but the sustained increase in their numbers may be concealing a reduction of social diversity on the bench, the national chair of the Magistrates Association has suggested. The latest statistics show that 54%…

Violence erupted on the streets of Leyton, east London, with bottles and rocks launched at officers. CCTV footage from a resident shows the teens forcing their way onto a bus which was trapped on the street. One officer was said…

Labour’s shadow home secretary would like to inform everyone how she would treat the country’s laws should we ever have the misfortune to see her in that position: We will probably never know if any of the Grenfell survivors simply…

Kevin Blake, deputy leader of Basildon Council, said: “Only complete and utter scum would do something like this. “Not only is it an obscene thing to do but it’s putting lives at risk because there is disturbed asbestos among the…

by JuliaM • April 27, 2017 • Comments Off on “Curses! I’d Have Gotten Away With It If Not For…”

“…those meddling commenters below the line!” “It is quite simply a damning indictment of our justice system that a woman recognised by the courts as being ‘fragile and vulnerable’, with no legal representation, can be imprisoned for 26 weeks…

Deputy District Judge Adrian Turner clearly doesn’t meet a lot of ladies: Prosecutor Kerry McNulty said the incident began when Szumko and her friend, who had shared a bottle of vodka, were turned away from the live music venue in…

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